Join us for this rare opportunity to spend a week with His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche, the head of the Shangpa Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche will share a week of teachings from the unbroken linage of yogis that extend back to the 10th century Indian female adept Niguma. He will teach the meditations, breathing, yoga postures, illusory body yoga, and dream yoga from Niguma. Rinpoche will teach, in the most accessible way to all levels, the Niguma Series of yoga poses. This is a chance to learn from the lineage master and receive his personal insight, dharma talks, and transmission of these powerful practices.

Michele will guide the morning Hatha Yoga stretching and strengthening sessions to be able to access the Niguma series more readily. She will also share evening Yoga Nidra sleep meditations to support our healing and transformational journey together.

This is a week of understanding the body as an essential pathway to awakening and happiness. It is receiving the gift of a sustainable daily lineage based practice. And it is a week of making long-lasting friends, being nurtured with gourmet vegetarian Italian food, surrounding oneself with nature, hiking, relaxing, and recovery, in this Italian lake village countryside setting.

His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche was born in 1990 and recognized by H.H. the Dalai Lama and H. H. the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa as the tulku, or rebirth, of Kalu Rinpoche (1905-1989), a renowned Buddhist meditation master and scholar who was one of the first Tibetan lamas to teach in the West. The current Kalu Rinpoche completed his traditional three-year retreat between 2004 and 2008, supported energetically by the practices of the Niguma Trulkhor cycle. Rinpoche now teaches Niguma Yoga around the world to cultivate awareness of the psychological basis of effective spiritual practice and to promote physical and mental well-being.

Michele Loew is the founder of The Yoga Space in Portland, Oregon, and is an inspiring Yoga teacher internationally known for her compassionate and down to earth style, expert hands on assists, and alignment based Yoga Alliance Teacher training programs. She is the co-founder of “Vajra Yoga” with Robert A.F. Thurman for Tibet House.. Vajra Yoga is a School of comparative Buddhist and Classical Yoga Indian inner-science which aims to share the wisdom teachings of the Buddha and the Yogis to bring happiness to all.

For more information and bookings please click here. 

This retreat will be held in English.

Agenda

Arrival Day, Sunday June 15
From 2 pm Check-in
4pm Opening Session
7pm Dinner

Daily Sample Schedule
6:45-8:15am Morning Yoga with Michele
8:30-9:30am Breakfast
10:00-12:30  Niguma Teachings, Illusory Body/Dream Yoga with Kalu Rinpoche
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
3:00-5:00pm Rinpoche
6:00-7:00pm Dinner
7:30-8:30pm Yoga Nidra/ Tibetan sleep yogas with Michele

Departure Day, Saturday June 21 (Happy Solstice)
The retreat ends on Saturday morning June 21st after morning asana practice. June 21 will be your day to check out from Mandali, enjoy breakfast and then travel home.

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